Recaps

Zhou Qingqing revived Shakyamuni Tathagata at Zu Zheng’s request and prepared to sever his bloodline karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti so he could be reborn among humanity. Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed the revival but failed to call Shakyamuni Tathagata back when the karma was cut again.

• Zhou Qingqing transformed into Celestial Master Zi and began using Reincarnation to revive Shakyamuni Tathagata.
• Houtu and King Pan observed as Shakyamuni Tathagata awoke in the thirty-sixth-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus.
• Celestial Master Zi told Shakyamuni Tathagata that Zu Zheng had wished for him to reincarnate as a human and fight alongside him.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata accepted the idea but warned that his bloodline karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti had reconnected.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed Shakyamuni Tathagata’s revival and tried to summon him through their karma.
• Celestial Master Zi severed the bloodline karma again, leaving Buddha Mother Zhunti unable to call Shakyamuni Tathagata back.

Zhou Qingqing revived Shakyamuni Tathagata, severed his connection to Buddha Mother Zhunti, and helped him become the Awakened One and a follower of Qin Shi Huang. She then summoned Patriarch Bodhi to Reincarnation Space and revealed that she intended to release him from the Investiture of the Gods List.

• Houtu told King Pan that Zhou Qingqing had reached the ninth level of Primordial Chaos and severed Shakyamuni Tathagata's karma with Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• Shakyamuni Tathagata returned with green hair, thanked Qin Shi Huang, renamed himself the Awakened One, and chose to become his follower.
• The Awakened One entered the Human Path to be reincarnated as a citizen of Great Qin, while Nuwa and the Human Dao saints resumed discussing the Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing considered freeing Patriarch Bodhi, Buddha Mother Zhunti's good corpse, after his time as a stablemaster.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned Patriarch Bodhi to Reincarnation Space, revealed that she had known his identity from the moment he entered Blue Planet, and said she intended to release him.

Zhou Qingqing offered to free Patriarch Bodhi from the Investiture of the Gods List and showed him memories of his past lives as Sun Wukong’s master. Patriarch Bodhi began to understand her reasons, and she prepared to sever his ties to Buddha Mother Zhunti and help him become a true Daoist.

• Patriarch Bodhi doubted that Zhou Qingqing could release him, but she told him the Investiture of the Gods List had originally belonged to her.
• Zhou Qingqing said she wanted Patriarch Bodhi to sever his ties with Buddha Mother Zhunti and become a true Daoist, partly in repayment for training her disciple.
• Zhou Qingqing showed Patriarch Bodhi memories of teaching Sun Wukong in other Primordial Worlds, including naming him and passing on his skills.
• Patriarch Bodhi asked what happened after Sun Wukong left his school, and Zhou Qingqing told him that Sun Wukong never revealed his master’s identity despite his hardships.
• Zhou Qingqing explained that Patriarch Bodhi need not fear being unable to cultivate after Shakyamuni Tathagata entered Reincarnation, citing the Earth Sovereign’s success as a good corpse incarnation.

Zhou Qingqing persuaded Patriarch Bodhi to accept release from the Investiture of the Gods List and reincarnation, then severed his connection to Buddha Mother Zhunti. She obtained another sphere of light as Patriarch Bodhi entered reincarnation, while Zhunti stayed away rather than confront her.

• Zhou Qingqing, speaking as Celestial Master Zi, warned Patriarch Bodhi to accept her offer or return to the Investiture of the Gods List, and he agreed to leave.
• Zhou Qingqing touched the Investiture of the Gods List and instantly freed Patriarch Bodhi from its binding force.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti sensed that Patriarch Bodhi had been severed from him, considered confronting Zhou Qingqing, but lacked the courage to go to Three Pure Ones Heaven.
• Zhou Qingqing sent Patriarch Bodhi to reincarnate on Blue Planet, and he entered the divine light of Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing reappeared holding a sphere of light like the one she had obtained from Shakyamuni Tathagata, and Houtu recognized that she had gotten what she wanted.

Inside the Chaos Pearl, Zhou Qingqing used the fates of Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi to create a vessel for replacing Buddha Mother Zhunti’s life. With the Chaos Pearl’s Supreme Fate Dao repairing the vessel, she appeared close to completing the substitution.

• Zhou Qingqing prepared to replace Buddha Mother Zhunti’s life after using the Great Destiny Technique to sever Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi’s fates from her.
• Zhou Qingqing switched forms and manifested as Zhou Jinjing inside the Chaos Pearl.
• Zhou Jinjing measured the merit in the two spheres of light and used the Great Destiny, Great Karma, and Great Reincarnation Techniques to form them into a golden Buddha statue.
• The statue cracked as Zhou Jinjing attempted the difficult life substitution for someone at the Dao Integration level.
• Zhou Jinjing summoned the Chaos Pearl’s Supreme Fate, which infused the golden rain with Chaos qi and began healing the statue’s cracks.

Buddha Mother Zhunti worried about Zhou Qingqing's attack and hoped his senior brother would secure an opportunity for him to achieve Dao Creation. Zhou Qingqing transferred Zhunti's fate to a Buddhist statue and used her Great Puppet Art to control it, discovering Amitabha Buddha was arranging an opportunity for Zhunti to achieve Dao Creation.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti fretted that Zhou Qingqing was targeting him and wished his senior brother would return with a Dao Creation opportunity.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti's stirred fate shifted onto a Buddhist statue inside the Chaos Pearl as Zhou Qingqing's fate swap succeeded.
• Zhou Qingqing completed her Great Puppet Art, controlling the Buddhist statue as a puppet that temporarily bore Buddha Mother Zhunti's fate.
• Zhou Qingqing pressed her palms together and chanted, "Homage to Buddha Mother Zhunti."
• Zhou Qingqing sensed Amitabha Buddha seeking an opportunity amid the greater trend for Buddha Mother Zhunti to achieve Dao Creation.

Amitabha Buddha gathered true nature across Buddha Mother Zhunti’s past, present, and future to prepare him to create the Great Dao of Truth. Just as Zhunti began receiving it, the true nature vanished, leaving Amitabha confused about what had happened to his junior brother.

• The Heavenly Venerates in Three Pure Ones Hall laughed at Zhou Qingqing calling Amitabha Buddha the best senior brother in the Primordial World as he worked to help Buddha Mother Zhunti reach Dao Creation.
• Amitabha Buddha concluded that Buddha Mother Zhunti must create the Great Dao of Truth and gathered true nature from his past, present, and future reincarnations.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to receive the true nature he had gathered, and Zhunti eagerly prepared to absorb it.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti began receiving the true nature, but it vanished from his Buddha body as Suchness descended upon him.
• Amitabha Buddha watched the prepared true nature disappear and wondered what had happened to Buddha Mother Zhunti.

Zhou Qingqing used Buddha Mother Zhunti’s lost suchness to control a Buddhist statue and peer into Amitabha Buddha’s memories. She discovered scenes of Chaos treasures and considered searching them for the remaining pieces of the Chaos Pearl.

• Buddha Mother Zhunti traced the loss of his suchness to Zhou Qingqing’s scheme involving Shakyamuni Tathagata and Patriarch Bodhi.
• Amitabha Buddha reassured Buddha Mother Zhunti that the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates would likely prevent Zhou Qingqing from creating the Great Dao of Truth.
• Zhou Qingqing used her Puppet Great Dao and ninth-level Primordial Chaos mana to make the Buddhist statue wield Buddha Mother Zhunti’s suchness.
• Zhou Qingqing used the statue to examine Amitabha Buddha’s memories and saw scenes featuring Chaos treasures and Pangu opening Heaven and Earth.
• Zhou Qingqing realized she might use the memories to search for the remaining parts of the Chaos Pearl.

Zhou Qingqing used Buddha Mother Zhunti’s power to search other Primordial World reincarnations for Chaos Pearls, while the Three Pure Ones realized Amitabha Buddha was pursuing a new Chaos supreme treasure. She discovered that Amitabha Buddha was preparing an Earth-Splitting Chisel and new trials for Sun Wukong in the Dream World.

• Zhou Qingqing activated the Great Destiny Technique and the Chaos Pearl to search other Primordial World reincarnations, finding that they held different Chaos Pearls.
• The Three Pure Ones reasoned that Amitabha Buddha was searching for a Primordial World where Fate had replaced the Chaos Pearl’s supreme Great Dao, potentially giving rise to a new Chaos supreme treasure.
• Zhou Qingqing estimated that merging the newly found pearls would restore about seventy-five percent of her Chaos Pearl’s power.
• Zhou Qingqing saw a memory in which Pangu used an Earth-Splitting Chisel alongside the Pangu Axe to open the Primordial World.
• Zhou Qingqing discovered that Amitabha Buddha had brought the bodies of slain Chaos Demon Gods into the Dream World and was forming eighty-one new tribulations for Sun Wukong.

Amitabha Buddha restored Buddha Mother Zhunti’s fate and sent him to the Dream World to retrieve his true nature, then took control of Buddhism’s Calamity himself. As Zhou Qingqing prepared for a new Journey to the West, Amitabha Buddha began his Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method to awaken the original Buddha Path protagonist’s ferocity.

• Amitabha Buddha identified Zhou Qingqing’s fate-swapping ability and used the Earth-Splitting Chisel to restore Buddha Mother Zhunti’s fate.
• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti to search for his stolen true nature in the Dream World, and Buddha Mother Zhunti departed.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to fuse her twenty-five percent of the beads into her Chaos Pearl and prepare for a new Journey to the West.
• Amitabha Buddha resolved to intervene in the Calamity and awaken the original protagonist of the Buddha Path before he completed his journey through Reincarnation.
• Amitabha Buddha reversed the golden Swastika Symbol and announced that he would use his Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method.

Amitabha Buddha triggered the Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method and poured the power of his Twelve-Light Tathagata into Golden Cicada, transforming him into a Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon. As Houtu detected the change and struck at the Land of Ultimate Bliss, Amitabha Buddha concealed the Earth-Splitting Chisel and took her punch.

• Amitabha Buddha used the Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method to awaken the power of Golden Cicada’s past lives and give him the Twelve-Light Tathagata’s power.
• Zhou Qingqing watched Golden Cicada transform into a Six-Winged Heavenly Demon and recognized the balance between the Buddha and Demon Paths as the Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Scripture.
• Zhou Qingqing wondered why Tang Sanzang had lost all his cultivation in the original trajectory, even without anyone’s interference.
• Houtu discovered the changes in Reincarnation and decided to test Amitabha Buddha by striking the Land of Ultimate Bliss with the power of the Earth Dao.
• Amitabha Buddha concealed the Earth-Splitting Chisel and took Houtu’s punch, which hurt him slightly.

Zhou Qingqing created the Heaven-Sent Fortune System to give Shi Ji an opportunity to attain sainthood and counter Amitabha Buddha’s move. Shi Ji’s Blue Planet projection bound to the system, which connected her soul to her true body in the Primordial World.

• Houtu recognized the gulf between the Dao Integration Realm and Dao Creation Realm and chose to trust Zhou Qingqing to contend with Amitabha Buddha.
• Amitabha Buddha healed his injuries in the Land of Ultimate Bliss and openly challenged Zhou Qingqing, while the Four Monkeys of the World remained in the Underworld fighting Ancestral Witch projections.
• Zhou Qingqing used the network Bai Ze and Daji had established to create the Heaven-Sent Fortune System for Shi Ji’s projection on Blue Planet.
• Shi Ji heard the system’s loli-like voice, realized Zhou Qingqing had created it, and agreed to bind with it.
• The system absorbed Shi Ji’s spiritual energy and completed its binding, linking her projection to her true body across the Great Dao.

Shi Ji received an immense amount of Inconceivable Dao-Proving Gold and used the Heaven-Sent Fortune System to search for Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada. After finding him with a divine ability, she chose to focus her exchanges on improving her foundation and path to proving the Dao.

• The system gave Shi Ji Inconceivable Dao-Proving Gold and tasked her with defeating Amitabha Buddha's pawn, Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji exchanged some Dao-Proving Gold for Turning Back Heaven and Reversing the Sun, receiving Zhou Qingqing's insights along with the divine ability.
• Shi Ji used the divine ability to locate Golden Cicada and saw the monk surrounded by demonic qi and Amitabha Buddha's Twelve Lights.
• Shi Ji decided not to attack or spend the gold carelessly, reasoning that the system should help her prepare to prove the Dao.
• Shi Ji considered exchanging for Pangu's Blood Essence, then instead asked the system to exchange for a top-tier innate foundation.

Shi Ji received a top-tier Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone foundation, which evolved her innate stubborn stone foundation and strengthened her potential. She decided to face Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada, while Amitabha Buddha prepared for their confrontation.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian considered how Qingqing could create a top-tier foundation for Shi Ji.
• Qingqing exchanged for a Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone foundation and offered it to Shi Ji.
• Shi Ji claimed the reward, and Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Qi evolved her foundation.
• Shi Ji decided to challenge Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada to discover how to develop her expanded potential.
• Amitabha Buddha sensed Shi Ji's evolved foundation and Tai'a Sword, but trusted Golden Cicina's strength and doubted she could prevail.

Shi Ji confronted Sui Sanzang, whose Heavenly Demon Six Paths suppressed her White Bone Path. She gained Demon Path techniques and fused them with her own path, blocking Golden Cicada’s attack and revealing the White Bone Demon Path.

• Shi Ji told Sui Sanzang to continue the Reincarnation and be reborn as a human, but he attacked her instead of replying.
• Golden Cicada struck with Heavenly Demon Six Paths, using the Demon Path to suppress Shi Ji’s White Bone Form.
• Shi Ji exchanged for Heavenly Demon Four Corrosions and Heavenly Demon Five Extinctions and absorbed their insights.
• Shi Ji fused the Demon Path with her White Bone Path and blocked Golden Cicada’s Heavenly Demon Six Paths.
• Amitabha Buddha watched Shi Ji wield the White Bone Demon Path and wondered how she had comprehended it.

Shi Ji used the system to seek a counter to Golden Cicada’s Thirteen-Lights Tathagata, carefully choosing powers suited to her rather than borrowing her master’s Sword Dao Torrent. The chapter left her with White Bone Contemplation, insights into the Great Dao of Grand Vows, and a cup of Enlightenment Tea to help her awaken to the Dao.

• Shi Ji realized that her White Bone Demon Path came from her own effort and the system, not from Eldest Senior Sister’s direct intervention.
• Amitabha Buddha observed Shi Ji’s improvement and prepared to test whether she could break the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata he had bestowed on Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji rejected exchanging for her master’s Sword Dao Torrent because she feared she could not bear the principles within it.
• Shi Ji asked the system for a divine ability suited to her that could counter the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata, and Qingqing granted her a reversal of Buddhism’s demonic transformation of the White Bone Bodhisattva, White Bone Contemplation, and insights into the Great Dao of Grand Vows.
• Shi Ji requested help awakening to the Dao, and Qingqing created an Enlightenment Tea Tree and gave her a cup of Enlightenment Tea.

Shi Ji drank Enlightenment Tea, comprehended Buddhism’s White Bone Contemplation, and transformed it into a Demonic Buddha path aimed at destroying Buddhism. She made four murderous grand vows against Buddhist teachings and began channeling the White Bone Life-Slaying Dao against Golden Cicada.

• Shi Ji swallowed a pot of Enlightenment Tea as Golden Cicada prepared to unleash the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata.
• Shi Ji comprehended Buddhism’s White Bone Contemplation, and Amitabha Buddha recognized her transformation into a White Bone Bodhisattva.
• Shi Ji made four grand vows to slay sentient beings, cut down afflictions, destroy Buddhist gates, and sever the Buddha Path.
• Amitabha Buddha realized Shi Ji had reversed the Buddhist path into a demonic one, while the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates praised her vows.
• Shi Ji circulated the White Bone Life-Slaying Dao, preparing to use her white bones as swords against Golden Cicada.

Shi Ji spent all her Dao-Proving Gold to obtain the Primordial World Version of the God-Striking Stone Technique, a method devised by Zhou Qingqing to erase Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada’s cultivation. As Shi Ji claimed the technique, countless bones appeared in Reincarnation and began stacking together.

• Amitabha Buddha realized that Shi Ji had countered the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata’s divine abilities and resolved to reveal Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon’s full strength.
• Shi Ji used Dao-Proving Gold to trade blows with Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada while considering how to defeat him before proving her Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing devised a version of the God-Striking Stone Technique that would use Shi Ji’s Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone to erase Golden Cicada’s cultivation.
• Shi Ji spent all her Dao-Proving Gold to obtain the technique and claimed the reward.
• Countless bones appeared in Reincarnation and stacked atop one another, alarming Amitabha Buddha.

Shi Ji used the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone to erase Golden Cicada’s cultivation, thwarting Amitabha Buddha’s plan to make him Buddhism’s protagonist. She then fused with the Primordial Purple Qi and became an Earth Dao Saint, while Amitabha Buddha vowed to make Golden Cicada’s entry into the human world the true beginning of the struggle.

• Shi Ji petrified the white bones into a boulder and used her Petrifying Eye to immobilize Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji struck Golden Cicada with the boulder, erasing his cultivation and disrupting the reincarnation’s intended course.
• Shi Ji kicked the petrified Golden Cicada into the Human Dao, destroying Amitabha Buddha’s plan for him to become Buddhism’s protagonist.
• Shi Ji fused with the Primordial Purple Qi and became an Earth Dao Saint, completing her mission and losing the Heaven-Sent Fortune System.
• Amitabha Buddha accepted Golden Cicada’s setback but vowed to obstruct his journey through the human world.

Zhou Qingqing arranged a Burial System for Golden Cicada after he reincarnated as a child in Yin Wenjiao's womb. Golden Cicada awakened as a primordial spirit, bound the system, and claimed its beginner's gift pack.

• Amitabha Buddha believed he could use his superior knowledge of the Journey to the West Calamity to exploit Golden Cicada's reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to give the reincarnated Golden Cicada a Burial System and linked Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao's destined relationship.
• Golden Cicada regained consciousness in Yin Wenjiao's womb and wondered about his hazy memories of being struck and kicked.
• The Burial System offered to bind with Golden Cicada, and he accepted after hearing its threat to erase him if he refused.
• The Burial System completed the binding and offered a beginner's gift pack, which Golden Cicada chose to claim.

Tang Sanzang claimed his novice gift pack and began cultivating in his mother’s womb, while Amitabha Buddha found Golden Cicada’s reincarnation and empowered Liu Hong with Weak Water. Liu Hong shared the power with his river bandits, setting them on a path to challenge Holy Tang.

• Tang Sanzang claimed the Heaven-Burying Scripture, Coffin Lamp flame, and a page from the Book of Life and Death, then began cultivating in the womb.
• Burning Lamp panicked and begged the Daoist Heavenly Venerates for forgiveness after they mentioned him.
• Amitabha Buddha identified Tang Sanzang as Golden Cicada’s reincarnation and decided to use Liu Hong to arrange his parents’ deaths.
• Amitabha Buddha granted Liu Hong the power of Jieyin’s Weak Water.
• Liu Hong’s Weak Water power flowed into his bandits, who celebrated receiving it.

Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao encountered Liu Hong’s river bandits on the Flood River, where Amitabha Buddha’s Weak Water overcame Chen Guangrui’s Confucian powers. The chapter left Yin Wenjiao feeling movement in her pregnant belly as Chen Guangrui was injured.

• Chen Guangrui and pregnant Yin Wenjiao sailed toward Jiangzhou, where Amitabha Buddha turned the Flood River into purgatory with Weak Water.
• When the river turned black, Chen Guangrui shielded Yin Wenjiao and attacked the water with his righteous qi.
• Chen Guangrui used The Analects to strengthen his Confucian power, but the black river remained unchanged.
• Liu Hong’s river bandits emerged and attacked Chen Guangrui with Weak Water that dissolved his righteous qi, injuring him.
• Yin Wenjiao panicked as she could not help her injured husband, then felt movement in her lower abdomen.

Tang Sanzang began the funeral task while still in Yin Wenjiao’s womb and used the Heaven-Burying Scripture to send his power through her body. He took control of her and destroyed a river bandit, drawing Amitabha Buddha’s attention to the unborn Golden Cicada.

• Tang Sanzang learned that he had to bury those blocking the ship and escape the Flood River, and decided to act before Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao were overwhelmed.
• Liu Hong planned to kill the officials and Yin Wenjiao, while Amitabha Buddha directed the Weak Water to dissolve them and dismiss the unborn Golden Cicada as powerless.
• Tang Sanzang spoke to Yin Wenjiao from the womb and asked her to accept his power so he could bury the river bandits.
• Yin Wenjiao accepted her son’s power, and Tang Sanzang used the Heaven-Burying Scripture to control her body and strike a river bandit.
• Yin Wenjiao’s palm made the river bandit vanish, prompting Amitabha Buddha to suspect that Golden Cicada’s power was at work.

As Yin Wenjiao fought the water bandits, Tang Sanzang used his funeral system to gain rewards and prepare a prize draw that could help her survive the Weak Water. The chapter ended with Tang Sanzang choosing to remove the wheel’s blank prizes for his first draw.

• Amitabha Buddha wondered how Golden Cicada’s reincarnation could show strength before birth and suspected Zhou Qingqing and Daoism were involved.
• Yin Wenjiao gained cultivation and strengthened divine abilities from holding funerals, then killed ten water bandits on the painted boat.
• The water bandits turned their Weak Water attacks on Yin Wenjiao, and Chen Guangrui tried unsuccessfully to shield her with his righteous energy.
• After completing ten funerals, Tang Sanzang received a prize-draw chance that would grant insight and briefly make him invincible.
• Tang Sanzang examined the Lucky Grand Wheel, which Zhou Qingqing had stocked with ways to control water, and chose to remove its blank prizes.

Tang Sanzang drew Yu the Great’s Flood Control experience and gained divine abilities that let him empower Yin Wenjiao against the water bandits. After another reward chest appeared, he gave Chen Guangrui Dragon Clan Blood Essence and Thunderstruck Jujube Wood to strengthen him, while Amitabha Buddha suspected Tang Sanzang’s power came from Daoism.

• Tang Sanzang experienced Yu the Great’s Flood Control and gained Earth Vein Insight, Water Control, Divine Strength, and an imperial dynasty fortune blessing.
• Tang Sanzang used his new power to stop the Weak Water and strengthen Yin Wenjiao, who killed the water bandits boarding the pleasure boat.
• Amitabha Buddha examined Yin Wenjiao’s power but could not determine whether Zhou Qingqing had given it to her.
• After Tang Sanzang reached another ten burials, he opened a treasure chest and received Dragon Clan Blood Essence and Thunderstruck Jujube Wood.
• Yin Wenjiao passed the rewards to Chen Guangrui, who refined them to improve his combat strength.
• Amitabha Buddha recognized the rewards as connected to the Dragon Clan and Daoism and concluded Tang Sanzang had become Daoism’s protagonist.